Lukasz Zaluska pulls out all stops for Celtic

What a strange match at Celtic Park. Thrilling in parts, yet with a scoreline that seems cruel on Dundee United, given the chances they created. Yet even then, Celtic might have racked up six or seven. Even more confusingly, Lukasz Zaluska, a put-upon Celtic goalkeeper who started hesitantly, ended up saving Celtic on a number of occasions when United were throwing everything but the kitchen sink at their hosts.

The crowd here, all 50,589 of them, savoured what they saw. Note this attendance, too, at a time when Celtic, like Rangers, have been bemoaning the “dips” in their audiences.

If Celtic — and Dundee United — can continue serving up fayre like this, then Scottish club football won’t go far wrong.

With five different scorers…

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